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The Middleswarth Foundation at a glance

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The Middleswarth Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$198kReligion$184kHuman Services$56kRecreation & Sports$23kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$13kHealth$12kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMMANUAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,500
MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS$10,000
MIDDLECREEK AREA COMMUNITY CENTER$6,000
JOURNEY TO JUSTICE$5,000
TRINITY CHURCH OF WINFIELD$5,000
ST JOSEPH'S CENTER$5,000
HAVEN MINISTRY INC$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
MIDD-WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,000
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S PROCESSING CENTER$1,000
EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,000
TRANSITIONS OF PA$500
HEREFOR GOOD CAMPAIGN$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $5k → 13%SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $1k → 13%SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES: $1k → 13%SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES: $1k → 13%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $1k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $500 → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $500 → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Middleswarth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 86%.

The Middleswarth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$438k · 39 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$438k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+120%

Still filing today

54%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HM
    HAVEN MINISTRY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +244%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPHS CENTER
    2× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +59%
  • SF
    SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FA
    FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WE
    WEST END GRACE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CU
    CHRIST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pennsylvania State Police Camp Cadet of Lancaster County
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2
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
3
Scranton Primary Health Care Center

The center provides comprehensive health and dental services for residents of scranton pa and other communities in lackawanna and surrounding counties.

Health
4
Southeastern Pennsylvania Air Force Academy Parents Association
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5
Camp Susquehannock Inc

Camp Susquehannock operates a summer camp in the Endless Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania that uses sports and other activities to develop confident, resilient, independent and happy young girls and boys.

Youth Development
6
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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7
South Mountain Ymca

The mission of south mountain ymca is to provide a camping experience, educational and other programs that build personal leadership, character and life skills while developing caring, honesty, respect and responsibility in young people,…

Human Services
8
Susquehanna River Valley Dental Health Clinic

To provide preventative and corrective dental services to the underserved in the communities of snyder, union and northumberland counties. the clinic operates as a non-profit to minimize the cost of care to patients by maintaining an…

Health
9
Southern Clarion County Ambulance

Emergency medical care

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10
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
11
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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12
Summit Physician Services

Summit physician services, and the associated wellspan medical group, operate on the belief that a large, well-organized group practice, based on primary and preventive care, and working collaboratively as part of an integrated health care…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is West Beaver Township Veterans Memorial Pool. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherEMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $34,500 · OtherWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATIONPAXTONVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $29,945 · OtherPAXTONVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGRACE COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherGRACE COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCHFIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $20,000 · OtherFIRST ASSEMBLY OF GODEMMANUAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,500 · OtherHAVEN MINISTRY: $12,000 · OtherWEST END GRACE CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+34 more: $93,850 · Other+34 moreMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $188,000 · Recreation & SportsMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED+4 more: $11,750 · Recreation & Sports+4 moreST JOSEPHS CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesSHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITIONS OF PA: $2,500 · Human ServicesPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $3,000 · AnimalsMOSTLY MUTTS INC: $2,750 · AnimalsEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthSNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS: $2,750 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education
Other$295,795Recreation & Sports$199,750Human Services$13,500Animals$5,750Health$5,500Youth Development$3,750Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $188,000 over 6y, 87% of budgetWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $34,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetHAVEN MINISTRY: $12,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST BEAVER TOWNSHIP VETERANS MEMORIAL POOL: $5,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP: $3,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS: $2,750 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMOSTLY MUTTS INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP MOUNT LUTHER CORPORATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF PA: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA COUNCIL BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF SUNMJ: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSELINSGROVE PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY LAW ENFORCEMENT: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEST BEAVER TOWNSHIP VETERANS MEMORIAL POOL ↗
  • Who funds SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP ↗
  • Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds SNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds MOSTLY MUTTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MOUNT LUTHER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITIONS OF PA ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA COUNCIL BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Giving Foun…Degenstein Charitable…The 1994 Charles B De…First Community Found…Degenstein Charles B …Central Pennsylvania …Fern & Gladys Moyer M…Battram Community Fun…William J and Ann M R…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Giving FoundationPA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Giving Foundation · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · Battram Community Fund Inc · William J and Ann M Roll Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Middleswarth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Middleswarth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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